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SUMMARY:Celebrate Student Research: Games in Asia
DESCRIPTION: During Celebrate Learning Week and honouring Asian Heritage 
 Month\, the Asian Library is pleased to present emerging new researchers 
 from UBC's Asian Studies\, History\, Journalism\, and Art History\, Visual 
 Art & Theory departments. This year's theme is games\, and the presenters 
 will be discussing a wide range of topics from traditional games to the 
 sociocultural impact of digital gaming. This workshop will be moderated by 
 Dr. Christina Laffin of the Asian Studies Department. This event is free 
 and open to the public.\n \n\nPresenters\n\nBianca Chui\nBianca Chui is 
 graduating with BA in Honours History and is an incoming MA student in the 
 Department of Asian Studies in UBC. She recently completed her honours 
 thesis on the intersection between print culture and food culture by 
 examining sugoroku (a type of Japanese board game) in Edo Japan. As the 
 event coordinator at the Centre for Japanese Research (CJR)\, she organized 
 over a dozen events of different nature in the 2020-21 academic 
 year.\n\nRomi Kim\nRomi Kim (he/she/they) is a second generation Korean\, 
 currently on unceded Musqueam\, Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish first nations. 
 They received their BFA in Visual Arts and Gender Studies from the 
 University of Victoria and are currently an MFA candidate at UBC. Kim's 
 practice explores intergenerational effects of colonialism\, gender\, and 
 storytelling methods through affect and emotion. Currently they are 
 researching the traditional Korean game Hwat'u (introduced to Korea by 
 Japan)\, Hanja (Sino Korean derived from Chinese)\, and the myth of 
 Paridegi (the first Shaman in Korea). Installation\, video\, performance\, 
 bookmaking and drag are some of the mediums they work within.\n\nTaranjit 
 Singh Dhillon\nTaranjit Singh Dhillon is a freelance journalist\, engineer 
 & currently works at the UBC Asian Library. He graduated from the Graduate 
 School of Journalism\, UBC Vancouver in 2018 and has worked briefly with 
 CBC Indigenous\, Canadian not-for-profit think-tank Asia Pacific Foundation 
 of Canada\, Vancouver\, Canada Eurasia Russia Business Association\, Indian 
 Railways and Jyotirgamaya\, a community radio station. His research 
 interests are traditional games of South Asia\, geopolitics and the Arctic 
 region security.\n\nTianyu Li\nTianyu Li received his BA in History with a 
 Minor in Philosophy from UBC. He is currently pursuing a MA in Asian 
 Studies at UBC\, supervised by Dr. Sharalyn Orbaugh and Dr. Renren Yang. 
 His research focuses on transnational culture and media studies\, it pays 
 attention to the question of (post)human self-identity and desire in 
 Chinese video games in relation to Japanese manga and anime. Tianyu also 
 has interests in the representation of evolutionary thinking in video 
 games.\n\n \n\nLocation Details\n\n\n	Location:\n	*ONLINE* (Registrants 
 will receive the Zoom link before the event)\n
ORGANIZER;CN="Phoebe Chow":MAILTO:phoebe.chow@ubc.ca
CATEGORIES:Library Research
CONTACT;CN="Phoebe Chow":MAILTO:phoebe.chow@ubc.ca
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